vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-14919: Improper Input Validation

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 30, 2017
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Node.js before 4.8.5, 6.x before 6.11.5, and 8.x before 8.8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uncaught exception and crash) by leveraging a change in the zlib module 1.2.9 making 8 an invalid value for the windowBits parameter.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-nodejs
Title
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